20 Tips to Improve Your Code

This is a discussion on 20 Tips to Improve Your Code within the C++ Programming forums, part of the General Programming Boards category; i found a rather interesting site last night that gives 20 tips to improve your C++ coding.
I'd like to ...

20 Tips to Improve Your Code

i found a rather interesting site last night that gives 20 tips to improve your C++ coding.

I'd like to know the opinions of the experienced people here on these tidbits of info before i post mine, because i'm sure most of the hackers (NOT crackers) here have been doing this stuff for far longer and understand it far better than i.

I have always defined a "hack" as something that is stuck into code as a band-aid. Not a correct fix or proper form. A hacker as I have always seen it is a sloppy coder or someone who doesn't think about proper design and the result is something that can only be maintained by a hacker.

Maybe its not the correct definition but it's the one I've used. And I wasn't saying that they had anything to do with cracking either.